PEST IN WHEAT.
NOT FOUND IN AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov, 15, 7.15 p.m. a Sydney, Nov. 15. With reference to the evidence before the Select Committee on Agriculture that a new post, khapra, had been introduced from India and was spreading in Australia, the Minister of Agriculture has secured a report from departmental experts which disproves the statement that khapra exists in Australia. The report adds that no entomologists ever | found the khapra beetle in Now South Wales wheat, and they are equally certain it has not been found anywhere else in Australasia. It will probably be established that khapra has not been recorded as a wheat pest anywhere but in India.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1920, Page 5
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116PEST IN WHEAT. Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1920, Page 5
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